For me, it will always be The Bourne Identity. Other films I really dig of this type are Luc Besson style films - Transporter series, Hitman, Taken. I really like films that are set in Europe because they seem grittier and easier to identify with, opposed to Hollywood movies.

Matrix, (the original, not the sequels). Yes I know, it's more sci-fi than pure action but no action movie left such an impact on me.

I don't like today's action flicks much, it's usually just brainless entertainment (for example I was so hyped about The Expendables and was left VERY disappointed), but action movie with a cool story - that's what I like to see.

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I just loved The Rock back in the days and still love it today Face/off was also pretty cool. Pretty old school...

FaceOff was a great JOHN WOO action pic Felt like his I really his early work from Hong Kong Action Cinema (Woo helped define the Hong Kong Action genre). Before he became Holly Woo instead of John Woo. But I still dig his new stuff, though not as much.

--from wikipedia

John Woo and the triad filmsSee also: Heroic bloodshed, Gun fu, and Girls with gunsAs a producer, Tsui Hark facilitated the creation of John Woo's epoch-making heroic bloodshed movie A Better Tomorrow (1986). Woo's saga of cops and the triads (Chinese gangsters) combined fancifully choreographed (and extremely violent) gunplay with heightened emotional melodrama, sometimes resembling a modern-dress version of 1970s kung fu films by Woo's mentor Chang Cheh. The formula broke another all-time box office record. It also jump-started the faltering career of co-star Chow Yun-fat, who overnight became one of the colony's most popular idols and Woo's favorite leading man.[3]For the remainder of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, a deluge of films by Woo and others explored similar territory, often with a similar visual style and thematic bent. They were usually marked by an emphasis on the fraternal bonds of duty and affection among the criminal protagonists. The most notable other auteur of these themes was Ringo Lam, who offered a less romanticized take in such films as City on Fire, Prison on Fire (both 1987), and Full Contact (1992), all starring Chow Yun-Fat. The genre and its creators were accused in some quarters of cravenly glorifying real-life triads, whose involvement in the film business was notorious.[15]

'Taken' was awesome..seen it about 5 times. 'Ronin' is one of the best authentic movies ...great choice!!

Yeah, Taken is awesome ! Ronin's great as well.. note all these movies had great car chases with either BMW's or Audi's !

QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Oct 14 2011, 08:24 PM)

FaceOff was a great JOHN WOO action pic Felt like his I really his early work from Hong Kong Action Cinema (Woo helped define the Hong Kong Action genre). Before he became Holly Woo instead of John Woo. But I still dig his new stuff, though not as much.

Yeah, John Woo is a big name in movies. I want to see the one with Chow Yun Fat called Hard Boiled

I watched Hanna the other day, it was good enough to watch but no biggie, at least for my taste.

Oh by the way, Payback is an awesome action movie if you haven't seen it.

Edit: Talking about more recent stuff, I really liked Wanted and Salt. Ok, maybe sweet Angelina has something to do with it, but still, I really had a blast watching both movies. I must have watched Wanted like four times

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